title: Structural colour: elusive iridescence strategies brought to light.
abstract: Understanding structural colours in nature requires the right set of optical experiments: this is illustrated by a new study on iridescent bird of paradise feathers, which suggests the potential behavioural importance of dynamic colour changes.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. P.Vukusic@ex.ac.uk
authors.forename: Pete
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vukusic
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D003116:Color; D005241:Feathers / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D046109:Passeriformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*